TCM is an independent private equity firm with a principal place of business in New York City,
New York (opened in April 2009), with additional office space in Austin, Texas. TCM’s advisory
business is conducted through TCM’s New York City and Austin offices. TCM’s strategy is to
make control or significant minority equity and equity-oriented investments primarily in middle-
market companies with the objective of achieving appropriate risk-adjusted returns. TCM seeks to
partner with management teams, entrepreneurs, and/or family owned businesses. TCM focuses
primarily on investing in companies in target industry sectors in which TCM’s investment team has
significant resources and expertise, within the buyout/growth capital private equity asset class.
TCM manages its Clients (as defined below) on a discretionary basis. As of December 31. 2023,
TCM manages $7.73 billion of regulatory assets under management across seven middle-market
private equity fund families, representing $9.67 billion of aggregate capital commitments of
Clients. Historically, TCM has managed seven middle-market private equity fund families with
overall aggregate capital commitments of $10.99 billion.
As of the date hereof, TCM Clients include the following collective investment vehicles to which
it serves as an investment manager: (i) Trilantic Capital Partners IV L.P. (together with certain
related parallel investment vehicles and alternative vehicles, “Fund IV Global”); (ii) Trilantic
Capital Partners V (North America) L.P. (together with certain related parallel investment vehicles
and alternative vehicles, “Fund V North America”); (iii) Trilantic Energy Partners (North America)
L.P. (together with its alternative vehicles, “TEP I North America”); (iv) Trilantic Capital Partners
VI (North America) L.P. (together with certain related parallel investment vehicles and alternatives
vehicles, “Fund VI North America”); (v) Trilantic Energy Partners II (North America) L.P.
(together with certain related parallel investment vehicles and its alternative vehicles, “TEP II
North America”); (vi) Trilantic Capital Partners VII-A (North America) L.P. (together with certain
related parallel and feeder investment vehicles, “Fund VII North America”); and (vii) Trilantic
Capital Partners Prime (North America) L.P. (“TCP Prime”). Further, TCM provides limited
investment advice to certain co-investment vehicles of its Clients, including to (x) a co-investment
vehicle of Fund IV Global, which invests in and disposes of investments on a parallel basis with
certain investments of Fund IV Global; and (y) certain special purpose vehicles of Fund IV Global
and Fund V North America, as well as co-investment vehicles to Fund V North America, TEP I
North America, Fund VI North America and/or TEP II North America (such co investment vehicles
in subclauses (x) and (y), together with Fund IV Global, Fund V North America, TEP I North
America, Fund VI North America, TEP II North America, Fund VII North America and TCP Prime,
the “Clients”). Certain of the aforementioned co-investment vehicles are managed on a fee-free,
carried interest-free basis, or are managed with reduced management fees and/or carried interest.
TCM previously managed Trilantic Capital Partners III L.P. and its parallel funds, which was fully
liquidated as of December 31, 2018.
TCM was formed under the laws of the State of Delaware on April 3, 2009, as a limited liability
company, and converted to a Delaware limited partnership on January 1, 2014. In April 2009,
TCM, together with Trilantic Capital Partners L.P. Inc., a Guernsey limited partnership (“Trilantic
Europe”) and certain affiliates of each of them (collectively, “Trilantic”) completed the acquisition
of Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking (“LBMB”) from the estate of Lehman Brothers Holdings
Inc. (“Lehman Brothers”). The acquisition was executed in partnership with Reinet Investments
S.C.A. (“Reinet”), an investment vehicle listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. At the time
of the acquisition, Reinet Fund S.C.A. F.I.S (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reinet) and certain of
its affiliates acquired a minority non-operating economic interest in TCM and certain of its
affiliates, and certain affiliates of Trilantic Europe in connection with the transaction; as of the date
of this submission, subject to certain investment rights, Reinet does not own such non-operating
economic interests in TCM or its affiliates (or Trilantic Europe), provided that Reinet retains certain
limited partnership interests in affiliated general partners and its designees serve on the investment
committees of certain Clients. TCM has been registered with the SEC as an investment adviser
since January 2010 and its owners are Charles Ayres (Chairman and member of TCM’s Executive
Committee) and E. Daniel James (Chief Executive Officer and member of TCM’s Executive
Committee). In addition to Charles Ayres and E. Daniel James, the other investment partners and
senior advisors of TCM provide advice and guidance on the various firm matters and industry
sectors in which TCM Clients invest. These Partners and Senior Advisors include: Charles
Fleischmann (Head of Business Services and member of TCM’s Executive Committee), Glenn
Jacobson (Senior Advisor), Jeremy Lynch (Co-President and member of TCM’s Executive
Committee), Jamie Manges (Co-President and member of TCM’s Executive Committee),
Christopher R. Manning (Senior Advisor), Dan Siegman (Partner), Ted Rosenwasser (Partner) and
Li Zhang (Partner).
In Q1 2022, Christopher R. Manning, Chairman of Trilantic Energy Partners, stepped down as
Managing Partner of the Firm, but continues to be a Senior Advisor, shared employee and
associated person of the
Firm. Mr. Manning and other members of TCM that focus on investments
in the energy sector (including Glenn Jacobson) launched a new advisory firm, Greenbelt Capital
Management L.P. (“Greenbelt”), which relies on certain aspects of TCM’s “back office” and
“middle office” infrastructure, and which is separately registered as an investment advisor with the
SEC. As of January 1, 2024, an employee of Greenbelt is also a senior advisor to TCM, providing
fund finance support to certain of TCM’s Clients. Mr. Manning and his team continue to oversee
all existing energy-sector investments of the Firm’s current Clients; however, as successor funds
will not invest in upstream energy investments, Mr. Manning’s change in role has not affected, nor
is it expected to affect, or be relevant to, the operations of successor funds. Like Mr. Manning, the
rest of the energy team and the shared finance professional continue to be advisors and associated
persons of the Firm.
TCM primarily serves as an investment manager to funds with multiple investors that invest in
multiple assets, although certain continuation vehicles and co-investment funds and parallel funds
have been formed for single investors and/or for a single asset. Fund IV Global was organized to
make private equity investments primarily in North America and Europe; Fund V North America
and Fund VI North America were organized to make control or significant minority private equity
investments in North America primarily in the business services, consumer and energy sectors.
Fund VII North America was organized to make control or significant minority private equity
investments in North America, primarily in the business services and consumer sectors, although
investments may be made in other sectors or subsectors as well. TEP I North America and TEP II
North America were organized to make control and significant minority private equity investments
in energy related companies in North America.
TCM formulates the investment objective for each Client, directs and manages the investment and
reinvestment of each Client’s assets, and provides periodic reports to investors in each Client, in
accordance with each Client’s governing documents. Investment advice is provided directly to
each Client, and not individually to the investors of the Clients. TCM manages the assets of each
Client in accordance with the terms of the governing documents applicable to each Client. Investors
in Clients (generally referred to herein as “investors” or “limited partners”) participate in the overall
investment program for the applicable Client, but in certain circumstances are excused from a
particular investment due to legal, regulatory or other agreed-upon circumstances pursuant to the
governing documents; for the avoidance of doubt, such arrangements generally do not and will not
create an adviser-client relationship between TCM and any investor.
TCM originates and recommends investment opportunities for Clients, identifies sources of capital
for prospective and existing portfolio investments, structures, monitors and evaluates portfolio
investments, recommends the manner and timing of dispositions of portfolio investments and
provides certain other services (including certain administrative services necessary for the
operation of Clients) related thereto.
Specifically, TCM generally renders the following services in connection with the Clients’
investment programs:
• analysis and investigation of potential portfolio companies, including their business,
operations, management, financial condition, competitive position and prospects for future
performance;
• analysis and investigation of potential dispositions of portfolio investments, including
identification of potential acquirers and evaluation of offers made by such potential
acquirers;
• structuring of acquisitions and dispositions of portfolio investments;
• identification and arranging of sources of capital and other financing for portfolio
investments and portfolio companies;
• supervision of the preparation and review of all documents required in connection with the
acquisition, disposition or financing of each portfolio investment; and
• monitoring of the performance of portfolio companies and, where appropriate, providing
advice to the management of the portfolio companies during the life of a portfolio
investment.
Services to other Clients can vary, and have varied, from the services noted above based on the
investment objectives of such Client. For example, a Client may be (and certain Clients have been
and will be) formed for a specific portfolio investment, in which case, TCM does not provide
additional investment opportunities to such Client, but will provide other services noted above in
connection with the portfolio company held by such Client.
In addition to the services of its own staff and advisors, TCM arranges for and coordinates the
services of other professionals and consultants. TCM can engage, and has engaged, one or more
sub-advisors (including any affiliate) to perform investment advisory and investment management
services to Clients. TCM currently engages Trilantic Europe as a sub-advisor in respect of a
remaining Europe-based investment of Fund IV Global. All sub-advisory fees are borne by TCM
at no additional cost to Clients. Additionally, TCM could be engaged to perform similar sub-
advisory services. In addition, as noted above, TCM provides certain “back office” and “middle
office” services to Greenbelt, although it does not provide investment advisory services to
Greenbelt.
This brochure does not constitute an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy any securities.